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  2. Clean Water Rule - Wikipedia

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    Protection of wetlands and small streams is a major focus of the Clean Water Rule. The Clean Water Rule is a 2015 regulation published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to clarify water resource management in the United States under a provision of the Clean Water Act of 1972. [1]

  3. Waters of the United States Regulatory Overreach Protection ...

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    H.R. 5078 would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) from implementing or enforcing certain proposed regulations regarding the use of the nation’s waters and wetlands. The legislation would affect direct spending because it would reduce fees collected by the Corps for issuing permits ...

  4. Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. Army Corps of ...

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    The definitions of waters subject to CWA jurisdiction are contained in regulations of the Corps of Engineers and EPA, the agencies with primary responsibility for administering section 404. [3] Through judicial interpretation and regulatory changes since the 1970s, the types of regulated waters have evolved from narrow to broad, and also to ...

  5. I charted my own path on the WOTUS challenge, despite ... - AOL

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    Idaho AG Raul Labrador argues his critics were wrong when they chided him for joining the Texas lawsuit challenging the WOTUS rule

  6. Clean Water Act - Wikipedia

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    In May 2015 USACE and EPA published a new rule on the definition of "waters of the United States" ("WOTUS") and the future enforcement of the act. [80] [81] Thirteen states sued, and on August 27 U.S. Chief District Judge for North Dakota Ralph R. Erickson issued a preliminary injunction blocking the regulation in those states. [82]

  7. Environmental policy of the first Donald Trump administration

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    Soon after taking office, on February 28, 2017, President Trump signed an executive order to allow the EPA administrator to revise or rescind the Obama era Clean Water Rule, also referred to as Waters of the United States (WOTUS). [220] [221] [222] The executive order cited a need to pursue "economic growth" and to avoid "regulatory uncertainty."

  8. United States v. Riverside Bayview - Wikipedia

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    United States v. Riverside Bayview, 474 U.S. 121 (1985), was a United States Supreme Court case challenging the scope of federal regulatory powers over waterways as pertaining to the definition of "waters of the United States" as written in the Clean Water Act of 1972.

  9. Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency (2023) - Wikipedia

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    Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, 598 U.S. 651 (2023), also known as Sackett II (to distinguish it from the 2012 case), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that only wetlands and permanent bodies of water with a "continuous surface connection" to "traditional interstate navigable waters" are covered by the Clean Water Act.